The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-28

ing IN her room with her. While he was
| in her room her sister, Miss Waite, was
| usually sitting at the Waikiki door of the
| same room on the veranda. The time l
usually saw him there was between Ii and
II in the morning. As / went by the door
l would see him and Mrs. Howard sitting
on chairs converslng. Have seen other
gentlemen there visiting her, but 1 can't
say in her room. Mrs. Howard told me
that she was engaged to Mr. Gibson, but
1 must keep it quiet and not tell anybody,
! as Mr.. Gibson had not mentioned it to his
family yet. That was about the DRIFT of
! the conversation. This was about the Sec
ond visit of Mr.. Gibson. She used to con-
suit me and speak to me about things very
often. Mr.. Gibson's visits were spoken of
by others in the clearinghouse. l de-
livered two notes from plaintiff to defend
ant. She asked me to take letter and /
did To the best of my recollection the
letter was merely asking Mr.. Gibson to
call on her at a certain day. | thinkit was
headed Dear MIR. Gibson" and ended, /
think, Yours, affectionately, Flora" l
know the sending of this note was in con-
sequence of plaintiff and myself being told
that certain piece of poetry was going to
be published in one of the newspapers.
The poetry had reference to Mr.. Gibson
and herself. and was rather scurrllous. I
delivered the note to Mr.. Gibson person
ally in his private Office in the Government
Building. 1t was early IN April. In con-
sequence of Mr.. Gibson not calling on her
after the first letter she wrote a second
letter. [ read it, addressed it and delivered
| it. | was asked to take another letter and
declined. During the time 1 roomed in
| the same house with plaintiff at Mrs. Du
dots [ think she has behaved as much
| like lady as anyone could be, as far as /
| know, seeing bat very little company or
| gong out during the day or night. have
never seen or known of any improperly
of any kind. L have known her go to the
theater with Mr.. Turrill. The only gentle
men callers l saw there, outside of Mr..
| Gibson, have beeu Mr.. l.. M. Mather, Col.
| V. V. Ashford and young McChesney.
| They usually sat on the veranda. When
| defendant was at the house l never saw
! HIM bring anything. l told her if she was
really engaged to him, thought in justice
to her it should be made public. The sour
! rilous poetry that was to be published
| heard of perhaps, two or three days before
l took the letter to defendant l heard
that such an article was TO be published;
| heard it from a party connected with
newspaper. The person who intimated
the publication of the poetry was Mr..
Beals of the Evening Bulletin" He told
me of his having orders from the proprie-
tors of the newspaper to write cut some
hn mt ne
| plaintiff [ told Mrs Howard of the cir
cumstance and she requested me to as
Beals, who is also boarder at the Dudoit
house, not to publish this article and he
said he would request the proprietors not
do so. 1t never appeared. The suppose
ton why plaintiff showed me her letters
was to prove that she was engaged to de-
PENDANT. She told me she had heard that
defendant denied the engagement. The
first letter was not written by my advice or
dictation; the second letter the same way.
To the best of my recollection the first let
ter did not contain anything in regard to
| an engagement between plaintiff and de-
PENDANT.
MRS. HoYTs DEPOSITION.
The deposition of Mrs. Emma Victoria
Hoyt was then read by Mr., Kinney. 1t
went on to say that the plaintiff roomed
at her house; that she knew the defendant
to speak to; had not met him socially; he
| had been to her house several times; was
aware of dealings between plaintiff and de-
| PENDANT; that she told the plaintiff there
was no improperly in Mr.. Gibson visiting
her and that she had never heard any
scandal against him; that he was gentle
| man; that he called on her and spent the
| evenings with her alone; that he made six
visits to her house in September and two
| in August; that she saw on one occasion
| defendant parting from plaintiff at the
| the front gate; that the average length of
| his visits was from Z 80 to 10 O'Clock; that
plaintiff to her knowledge did not receive
any other gentlemen than defendant in her
| private sitting room; that plaintiff made
contidante OF her; that from observation
| of Mr.. Gibson's actions she had the i'm
| preston that he was earnestly in love with
! her; that she thought Mr.. Gibson would
not come to a public lodging house like
hers and spend evenings alone with
| plaintiff unless his intention was mar
! riage that she did not think that man
| of his age and position would be given to
| flirting; that he was attracted by her; that
| in October the plaintiff left her house.
| Alice Caldwell, sworn, stated am Mrs.
| Towards sister. Came here February
| 1886. First stopped at the Hotel, about
three or four days. From there went to
| Hoyt's l took the name of Waite on ac-
/ count of the canyasslng business. Never
| canvassed before l know Mr.. Gibson.
| First saw him at Mrs. Hoyt's about the
middle of July. Think it was during the
recess of the Legislature. The first time
| he came he walked to the gate. I saw
him from the veranda. Shortly after he
| came to the house. We made prepare
| tions for him to come. After that be
! came twice a week, perhaps more. He
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